20demayo Chapter 244
Chapter 244
chapter 244
the eldest aunt was an open-minded person who would support her daughter's choice of partner regardless of who they were, as long as they had good character - nothing else mattered.
however, for the eldest aunt, there was another equally important issue besides good character - her daughter couldn't marry someone far away.
as a mother of both a son and a daughter, the eldest aunt clearly favored her daughter. it didn't matter where her son's wife's family lived, nor did it matter if her son ended up living with his in-laws.
it was fine if her son married far away, but not her daughter.
what counted as "far away"? any place where they couldn't reach within an hour to beat up their son-in-law if he dared to mistreat their daughter.
if she was already against her daughter marrying far away, letting her daughter marry someone abroad was even more out of the question.
that's why even though the eldest aunt knew this family had eligible and handsome young men, she never considered introducing them to shi ruan.
grandma was extremely pleased with the pretty and sweet-talking shi ruan before her. she had always treated shi ruan like a granddaughter, never considering the possibility of her becoming a granddaughter-in-law.
now it seemed that if shi ruan could become their family's granddaughter-in-law, it would be no different from being part of the family.
thinking about this, grandma deeply regretted not realizing it earlier.
but it wasn't too late.
the elderly lady took out photos of her grandsons and earnestly promoted each grandson's strengths and weaknesses to shi ruan.
excluding two grandsons who already had girlfriends, she still had several single grandsons.
as grandma became increasingly excited while making introductions, shi ruan, who often visited their home and knew about the elderly lady's high blood pressure condition, quickly gave her two blood pressure pills and told her not to get too excited.
how could grandma not be excited? she simply made a video call.
although the time zones were different abroad, they were also celebrating chinese new year, and the whole family had just called grandma an hour ago to give new year's greetings.
they were somewhat surprised to receive her call again at this time.
a young, handsome face appeared on the screen. shi ruan took two steps back, trying to suppress her fluttering heart - he was indeed quite handsome.
she had often visited the villa before but never knew grandma's grandsons were so good-looking.
if only she had known earlier...
shi li was also thinking "if only she had known" - she would have introduced more handsome guys to her.
even from a distance, shi li could see the youthful, collagen-filled handsome face on the screen. if only she had introduced more younger brothers to shi ruan earlier.
these young brothers (younger than shi ruan but adults) were certainly better than ji chunsheng, who was approaching his thirties.
thinking of ji chunsheng, shi li took out her phone's camera and, from a distance, recorded a video capturing shi ruan video chatting with the handsome guy and the lasting smile on her face.
shi li was lucky enough to even capture shi ruan's girly voice in the recording.
worse news: shi ruan wasn't completely interested in the young brother.
speaking intimately with another man in front of someone's grandparents - her attitude was quite clear.
suddenly, a message popped up on shi li's phone. it was from the person who hadn't replied to her earlier message but had called shi ruan twice instead.
[your sister said she was just playing around with them]
[she loves me the most]
shi li had already heard the live version, so she didn't need his recap.
she and ji chunsheng truly seemed to have incompatible energies - seeing his message just irritated her.
[damn, i hate male green tea the most]
shi li took a deep breath and smiled as she replied: [those were just words to comfort you, you didn't actually believe them, did you?]
he replied quickly: [it doesn't matter, as long as she's willing to put in effort for me]
shi li was now fuming and didn't want to reply anymore.
soon after, shi ruan's call ended as well.
the handsome young man in the video was still patiently waiting for her to return.
shi li shook her head - this young man was clearly better than ji chunsheng, that aged green tea.
just as shi li was about to say something more to provoke the other party, her phone suddenly rang.
shi li thought it might be ji chunsheng calling to scold her, but it wasn't an unknown number - the caller id showed fu huixing.
it was probably a new year's greeting call - shi li had received plenty of those since early morning.
there was no need to hide from family for a new year's greeting call.
answering the phone, she and fu huixing simultaneously wished each other "happy new year."
after exchanging pleasantries, fu huixing hesitantly asked, "are there new year visitors at your home?"
shi li didn't understand why he would ask this, and casually answered, "no, i'm out paying new year visits."
he responded with an "oh" and carefully asked, "then am i disturbing you by calling now?"
"not at all, i'm not doing anything important anyway."
shi li really didn't understand fu huixing's strange questions today and didn't think much of it.
however, she didn't expect that not long after, she would actually see the fu family's second young master and fu huixing by his side.